Two ways of getting rich.

Disclaimer: this is a philosophical article. Do not get disappointed looking for easy ways of getting rich.

Having said that, if you really want to get rich by metrics of dollars, I think you should become owner of assets early in life. Get it wrong young, and start experimenting. Learn the fundementals of money and people, as values are created in the minds of people.

It sounds easy, but there is lot of work to be done. If you have the prospects of being rich, you'd be already doing this anyway. Unfortunately society have created so called traps. Where individuals stuck at certain unhappy loops, where they cannot break themselves free from. Yet its very simple, as barriers are only within minds. When given right information all the minds are capable of freeing themselves from imaginary barriers.

As you can see this is one way of getting rich. But there is a problem. Enormous pile of money is not going to make your inherent problems go away. Your mind thinks in a certain way. It behaves in a certain way. Body reacts to the enviornment to a certain way. As an example, money can help you to buy a good nutritious meal. But it cannot stop you from getting hungry. Money can buy you a better car, but it cannot give you power to teleport. Money can buy you medicine, but it cannot expand your lifespan to 500 more years. So, inherent human constrains of the mind and the body would remain no matter how much

you earn.

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After a certain point, even things you can buy also become limited , as boring. Comfort will become a logarithmic function against your total wealth. As science cannot keep up with innovation, to the speed of your pile of money grows, comfort you can buy will level out. Hence you might have to choose a different way of expending, and you might just become a rich Philanthropist. A fake one of course.

So, there are two ways of getting rich.

The second way of being rich is understanding rich is a feeling. Although you have a million dollars in the bank its just a number. A potential. You're not gonna carry it in your pocket. Hence its a feeling. You already know how to generate a feeling. And our mind kind of knows this intuitively. A child will feel happy when she is given an apple than a dollar bill. As in child's mind having an apple is rich than having a million dollars. In the same way, if you chose to be happy with something which is achievable for your abilities, then you can be rich. There is no difference between this and having a million in the bank.

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Instead of trying to accumilate physical thing to create a feeling of fulfilment, you can chose to find out knowledge and understanding about the mind. Where those feelings are created in the first place. The good thing is, once you know yourself you can recreate these feelings with few adjustments of your enviornment.

As an example you can chose to have a walk, or have a warm bath, in the afternoon. Which will create a sense of peace and happiness. You can chose to be happy eating same food from same Restaurent and still feel happy. After all nothing is gonna change the way you feel about the world other than understanding. And understanding cost nothing other than the time for you to look at yourself.